gentle a manner did his spirit take its flight, that though the writer of this memoir, his medical attendant, Mr. Woods, and three other persons, were standing at the foot and side of the bed, with their eyes fixed upon his dying countenance, the precise moment of his departure was unobserved by any.

From this mournful period, till the features of his deceased friend were closed from his view, the expression which the kinsman of Cowper observed in them, and which he was affectionately delighted to suppose an index of the last thoughts and enjoyments of his soul in its gradual escape from the depths of despondence, was that of calmness and composure, mingled, as it were, with holy surprise.

He was buried in St. Edmund's Chapel, in the church of East Dereham, on Saturday the 2d of May. Over his grave a monument is erected, bearing the following inscription, from the pen of Mr. Hayley.

In Memory

Of WILLIAM COWPER, Esq.
Born in Herefordshire, 1731.
Buried in this church,
1800.

Ye, who with warmth the public triumph feel
of talents, dignified by sacred zeal,

Here, to devotion's bard devoutly just,
Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust!
England, exulting in his spotless fame,

Ranks with her dearest sons his fav'rite nam ;

Sense, fancy, wit, suffice not all to raise
So clear a title to affection's praise:
His highest honours to the heart belong;
His virtues form'd the magic of his song.

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VERSES Written on finding the Heel of a Shoe

Stanzas on the First Publication of Sir Charles

Grandison

Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esq.

Fifth Satire of the First Book of Horace

Ninth Satire of the First Book of Horace

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To the Rev. Mr. Newton, on his Return from

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ib.

Verses from a Poem entitled Valediction

In Brevitatem Vitæ Spatii Hominibus concessi

On the Shortness of Human Life

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Lines for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper, Esq.

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The same in English

To Mrs. Throckmorton

Hor. Lib. II. Ode XVI

Latin Verses to the Memory of Dr. Lloyd

Another, for a Stone erected on a similar oc-

Hymn for the Sunday School at Olney

On the late Indecent Liberties taken with the

Remains of Milton

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In Memory of the late J. Thornton, Esq.

The Four Ages

To Mrs. King

Anecdote of Homer

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Composed in the Author's Nineteenth Year

Epigrams. On the Inventor of Guns

Epigrams. To Leonora, singing at Rome

Epigrams. To the same

The Cottager and his Landlord

To Christina, Queen of Sweden

On the Death of a Physician

On the Death of the Bishop of Ely

Nature unimpaired by Time

On the Platonic Idea

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To his Father

To Salsillus, a Roman Poet